PatHightree

If you'd like a Steam Frame take from a cranky VR dev, who's been doing this too long, here ya go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phxl...

Steam Frame is here! Our wireless VR headset + controllers, available now in the following models: Steam Frame 256GB Steam Frame 1TB Sign up now and learn more on @steampowered.com : store.steampowered.com/hardware/ste...

yes!!!! ShipShaper is released into Early Access store.steampowered.com/app/4339280/... Do spend a 8.99 on the best boat builder ever!!! Also when does this horror of having to listen to my own voice end.!! Buy now so I can retreat into the shadows again!! #indiedev #indiegame

demoscene pebble apps are one of the best parts of the pebbleverse nice work teadrinker! Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3HW... PT2 App: apps.repebble.com/8e50961fc56f...

Yes it’s a real photo with a real laser. Ask me how I know 🤩 (also probably the best photo I’ve ever taken)

time to activate my live webcam

What direction is this mask spinning?

Thinking about a name for this piece. Brainstorm? Illuminati? Brain waves? youtube.com/shorts/E4sKHSSSBgg

That’s right… WE’RE DOING IT AGAIN!! Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades 2 Wishlist now on Meta Quest & Steam

I will share this every year. Another belter of animation by @cyriak.bsky.social put to the epic music of Denki Groove. Enjoy. #Cyriak #DenkiGroove #Music #Animation www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS0f...

@ircss.bsky.social I think you'll appreciate this www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/matt...

🎉 Big news, puzzlers! 🎉 We’re super excited to announce that Puzzling Places - 3D Jigsaw Sim is coming to Steam on April 9th! 🧩 We can’t wait to share it all with you - be sure to wishlist now so you don’t miss out! #Steam #VRgaming #comingsoon

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KNV... This is the best Hendrix cover since Stevie Ray Vaughan and it isn't even played on a guitar!!!

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

MAJOR ANNOUNCE : fuck AI assets, who needs that! When ShipShaper fully releases it will come with fbx export and a license to use it in your #indiegame , mods, or 3D prints. No limits. Try out the DEMO today tho and Wishlist #shipShaper store.steampowered.com/app/4339280/...

Well that's nearly the whole of the thing isn't it. Big announcements incoming tomorrow.. (If you're into boats allocate some spare time this weekend...) ShipShaper is enroute..

Procedural support beams for the bridge. Again funny how there any thing from gothic, rococo, roman, elven to timur architecture in a single arc. Made a bunch of geomtry nodes for this, a wrapper to wrap these shapes around cruves, spacing them perfectly etc.

Version 2.1.0 of the SpaceNavigator driver package supports Linux 🥳🎉 A generous contribution was made by github user @AshaTheSorceress, they implemented a solution based on spacenavd and libspnav u3d.as/51X github.com/PatHightree/... #3dconnexion #spacemouse #unity3d

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

Open source can be SO awesome! I've got this 3D mouse driver project for Unity and a user by the handle of AshaTheSorceress submitted a Linux port 🎉😀👌 github.com/PatHightree/...

Berry Bars

Check out new gaming setup. The game is MORSE store.steampowered.com/app/1976860/...

"Snow Bear" is now available for free on Youtube (and in 4K). A hand-drawn animated short film directed by legendary Disney animator Aaron Blaise. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXo...

In honour of everyone thinking Half-Life 3 might be about to be announced (lmao), and me being the biggest worst/best Half-Life sicko, here I exclusively reveal to you the identity of the Gman

Hotel Infinity launches today on Meta Quest & PS VR2! It's a roomscale VR experience built around natural locomotion. Every step you take in real life moves you through the game Meta Quest: www.meta.com/experiences/... PS VR2: store.playstation.com/en-us/concep... youtu.be/ixaSqmiYqyU?...

Happy Halloween!

We're working on a roomscale VR game called Hotel Infinity (hotelinfinityvr.com) that lets you explore a vast environment by physically walking. The game is coming out for Meta Quest and PS VR2 on November 13, 2025 Here's a video explaining how we've designed the game: youtu.be/Yz862FOR_jQ?...

I shot a lot of cool video on holiday in Rwanda, so here's a highlights video youtu.be/SnKrGn1JIQE And for those who want to see more, a playlist www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Visited a gorilla family today in Rwanda. I saw only happy, eating and playing gorilla's. At one time, the alpha silverback walked by me at 1cm distance. I was squatting, so at eye level and we made eye contact. It was magical youtu.be/hMyY6JOqhoc

London really has some striking architectural contrasts. youtu.be/WNJ8YA6Ozxk

New video! Old news, new package: AI, Procedural Generation, UGC, in-game trading, Blockchain, and the Metaverse Why are game developers so adverse to these technologies? The best way to find out is by asking folks who have lived through the history of game development. youtu.be/CeZ_rcDQg6Q

HERDLING is coming out in just a few hours, so there's just enough time to go through some other fun tech-art stuff 👀 Here's another behind-the-scenes 🧵 with various other interesting tech-art stuff featured in our vast and furrious game ✨

A message from the Cozy Cube Team

Y'all need to get on my level as a game designer.

Maybe the real Ship of Theseus was the Ship of Theseus we made along the way

I am going to have to trademark "AI-gen is a mediocrity trap". Using it prevents you from reaching mastery cuz you aren't exercising deep skills. If you are a master you might lose those skills cuz you outsourced too much. Either way the end result is a hyper efficient mediocrity trap.

Alright, due to popular demand, let's start talking about the 🎶 Beasts with the fur (with the fur) 🎶 in ✨HERDLING ✨ Here's a 🧵 with the process and tech behind the fur on our fluffy Calicorns:

OSA is gonna make us lose access to fucking wikipedia write to your MPs.

Looks like I'm looking for a job :-/ Anyone looking for a senior dev?

doom monsters wearing high heels

Someone asked me what I thought of VR games in general in 2025 on our discord. I spent too much time writing this so figured I'd share it elsewhere. This is written off the top of my head so apologies for overbroad generalizations. Coffee-shop tier banter.

Splats are great, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could transform them into the stuff of dreams? Introducing our #CVPR2025 paper ✨Morpheus✨! Morpheus lets you change the shape and appearance of 3D Gaussian splats with a few words! nianticlabs.github.io/morpheus/ (1/6)

Probably the best Brush (github.com/ArthurBrusse...) reconstruction I've seen so far, many thanks to @gradeeterna.bsky.social!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGl0... Try it interactively here arthurbrussee.github.io/brush-demo/?... if you'd like to melt your GPU a bit ;)